Immigration Key in 2010 Elections
Tuesday, 16 Feb 2010 08:06 AM

By: James Walsh

If upcoming congressional mid-term elections repeat recent Republican victories in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts, Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the White House could get the message that they are moving the nation in the wrong direction.

U.S. voters don’t want nationalized medicine and they don’t want citizenship giveaways. More Republican victories could bench pending comprehensive immigration reform.

Although political polls show that most U.S. voters are against immigration legislation with citizenship giveaways, President Barack Obama chooses to ignore the trends. He continues to support comprehensive immigration reform in an effort to placate the liberal left of the Democrat Party and well-heeled immigration special interests.

The recent Republican victories are credited with the failure to pass health insurance reform in time for Obama’s first State of the Union address. These victories reflect disenchantment by voters with the course the Obama ship of state is charting.

Talking heads and opinion writers ascribe the president’s unfilled promises for “changeâ€